Cool.

Wow... this hurts to watch...
*sighs* I'm sorry man... I just don't have passion for Sonic anymore.

Quite understandable. To tell the truth, I like Sonic's character design (mostly before Dreamcast era), but that "lol I'm cool" personality never gets me. This always reminds me that dude -> http://policomic.files.wordpress.co.....10/poochy1.jpg

Plus, I remember how creepy it was when I've seen for the first time a Sonic game with the "Official Nintendo Seal". For a second I thought I was in the Twilight Zone.

The fact Sonic is on Nintendo consoles doesn't bother me as much as how Sega just ruined the franchise... They keep making "gimmicks" but i still dunno what I would like to see with the Sonic series, so I think I'm just over him entirely, lol. He's sailed his ship.

Indeed. It's quite bizarre to notice how Sega completely lost the essence of their own main franchise. It's ridiculous to see an arena from Super Smash Bros brawl ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EQqZ5MjBOg ) being more accurate than any of the recent Sonic games.

Sometimes I believe that Nintendo, ironically, would be more capable to make a good new Sonic game, respecting the original concept of the series.

Point. Although Nintendo also made some mistakes with the games, I believe that they would make a game that would be a final comeback of Sonic.

For Christ's sake, I just realized that even some of the fan-made games are better that the ones Sega spits at us, taking all of our money and giving one big NOTHING in return.

I always thought that Brawl stage is ugly.

Sega ruined their entire company. They made a bunch of bad choices, and now they just have a design team that operate as a video game sweatshop; pumping out games on a conveyor belt of ideas that come down from the top.

Man... I know... and the sad thing? They were SO CLOSE with Unleashed! They were very close in making something that could be considered "Sonic's back folks... rejoice!"

...but then they tossed in the Werehog stuff... -_-'

I think my friend put it best...

Sonic Unleashed is like a roller coaster - the Sonic stages are the ride and the Werehog stages are like waiting in the line. If they took out all of the Werehog stages, this game would almost be worth buying even without extra stages. The game is like a 9, mixed with a 5, mixed with a 7 for the central hub world. I can forgive the hub, though.

Sonic Team (or what's left of them) ALMOST had it... but they added the Werehog stages and just killed the game. Hopefully if they even ATTEMPT something else, they'll have learned from their mistakes =/

It's like they said let's give the fans the stuff they've been begging us for for years: the speed the smooth controls and the cool level designs that made the origonal games classics! Yeah we're gonna out all that stuff in there buuuuuuuuuuut...


We're also gonna totally rip off God of War while were at it and introduce the worst character ever in the Sonic Franchise... Chip. *shudders*

Yeah... and that was the problem...

... I would think that now that they know they have a winning system, they'll be able to potentially make a game in the future that takes all of what made Unleashed good and none of what made it bad and finally have Sonic back in effect.

Hell, if a 50 Cent game can get good or even decent reviews, anything's possible!

Do you forget about the hubs, story scenes, and sun/moon medals? To be honest I don't know why everyone blames the werehog. "waiting in line"... what about the actual waiting parts

Thanks for these, that's a nice bit of nostalgia. I wish they spent more time talking about other aspects of the games, like the music, which was phenomenal. The first sonic games had so much to offer, a really keen attention to details.

I think in an attempt to make Sonic seems badass they accidentally make him into kind of a douche. He even suffers from that in the cartoons and comics as well.

Personally I differentiate between the old sonic games (1993-2000) and the new games (2002-present) because back in the day sonic was cool and not some piece of crap that Sega clings to sell games, and it does pain me to say this but Sega should just pull the plug on sonic cause he's just not fun I mean come on Sonic Unleased! I mean what the fuck was that piece of ass.

miss type: 1991

I r made a pointless journal that is relevant to this journal (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/644694/) it's awesome.

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Awesome Possum: "I'm Awesome"
Everyone: "No, just no"

Poor Sonic... He's a cool character, but everyone's hating all the games he's in now-a-days.

I can't really say what it is myself. Some people hate the sheer number of characters the Sonic Team introduces... I say that I like them, for the most part. I have said before that 3D killed Sonic, but that hardly explains the numbers sold for Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. Then there's the opinion that the storylines the new games go with are rediculous. But honestly, with an on-going franchise where the same characters keep coming up, I'd say you have little choice but to go all over the board with it. >.>

Makes me wonder how, even now, the usual Mario VS Bowser thing is still entertaining, yet Sonic VS Robotnik/Eggman isn't to most anymore.

wow, talk about a trip down memory lane ^^,
I can even remember seeing most of those commercials lol.

thanks for posting this dude ^w<

aahhh..thems was the days..indeed i do like mario better..and still have super mario brothers 1,2,and 3 on the original NES..but i got a sega too..plus about 10 other systems. gotta pity nintendo..had they not backed out of a deal with sony at the last minute..the playstation would have never been born..and now it seems playstation and x-box are destroying nintendo..making some of the most awesome games of all time..while the Wii is just kinda..eh. what happened nintendo?..you guys made some of the best classic games ever..contra..bionic commando..guardian legend..mega man..blaster master..solar jetman..list goes on..but now..mostly party games..completely turned their backs on what made nintendo awesome. i weep for the death of a classic console..and anticipate the upcoming release of resident evil 5.

Sonic was da bomb!

Hee, i started my sonic comic collection @ #18 & this month they're hitting issue #196 so he's not completely dead lol. (& no, I've not been a good boy and collected all the issues in between, after getting married and having a kid I had to kinda quit)

I think sonic's downfall is that they tried to add too much in every single modern game they come out with. In the beginning there was speed. (oh and sonic, robotnik & a few aminanals lol) Now there's (insert most everything known to man here). Sonic's story started out as save the critters & now it's just all over the place.

Anyway....as it's on topic http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/vi.....c-the-hedgehog

If you don't watch it, you hate sonic by default lol

i love that guy and he´s right the second show was good and i hate sonic and is till say it was good.

Man...Sonic used to be my biggest hero as a kid. To be honest, now I can't even look at him :/

I'll still like Sonic though I will admit, they have gotten gimmicky. I mean the new one has him using a sword in a mid evil like world.

I facepalm hard when I've seen Sonic holding a sword for the first time. I was like "lolwut, Sonic confirmed for Soul Calibur IV".

XD, Indeed. I mean is it really such a necessity to keep putting all these things in the games. Just make a 3d side-scroller with the same design as the old games and Sega could come back up.

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LOL.

Kind of neat to see how he was created. Though it's too bad that he started off really great on his arrival but took a massive dive into hell over these past few years.

Oh, yeah. I was a Nintendo kid way back then, but even I had to admit to my friend Alex who owned a Genesis, that Sonic 3 & Knuckles was AWESOME.

I too kinda liked Sonic's original rough design, but it's funny how he originally had a human girlfriend and the controversy now with Sonic 06.

After Sonic Adventure 2, I actually said to myself, "Sonic isn't gonna be as good as he was in the Genesis era." SA2 was the last decent major console Sonic game that I liked, until his appearance in Brawl.

I really wish more people knew about Madonna, not to mention Sarah from Sonic VHS, then maybe they'd feel stupid for dissing Elise.

Though I still like Sonic, it just seems to me that Sonic Team is trying to hard to be original with Sonic when no one wants them to be. If there was ever a game that should listen to their fans, it's a Sonic game. Alot of fans just want something with great graphics that brings about the speed and feel of the old 2D games. Unleashed got close with the day levels and it would've been perfect like that and no 3D roaming or Werehog levels. If it was just the Sonic levels, I bet anything the game would've held much higher ratings than it got as is.

Sonic doesn't need gimmicks and countless characters included. I bet if they just went old school, bring back the old Robotnik, give us 2D/3D level running with maybe some classic story to it like with Knothole and the Floating Isle and what the comics did, it would do fantastic. It worked for Street Fighter to go back to it's old school roots with a graphical enhancement and flawless execution.

In the video retrospective there is nothing related to Knothole or the comics, it's not a classic element to Sonic. This video establishes Sonic as being trippy, stylish, energetic, attitude-driven.. i.e. the complete opposite of the comics.

Sonic Team needs to listen to -someone- granted.. but not the just "the fans". The fans insist Eggman's name be Robotnik, insist every stage become Green Hill, insist on side scrolling games only, now they even insist Sonic's eyes be black and his shoes not have buckles (despite his shoes always having buckles) and that the humans are gotten rid of (despite Eggman being a human), and lose all the characters "except Tails and Knuckles". The fans frankly have nothing to contribute I'm sorry to say.

and yes Street Fighter went to its roots with SF4, but many series fans agreed that Street Fighter 3 was the very best in the series anyway, so I don't know why, there's a movement of sorts, to mutate every franchise to what the general audience perceived it as in the very height of its popularity.

I don't mean giving in to every whim of the fanboy, but it just seems that with every new game, trying something "new and fresh" for Sonic just isn't working all that much. I heard alot of good reviews about the day levels of Sonic Unleashed, even I loved them, but everything in between with the werehog and the city running/free roaming to get tokens to open levels killed it pretty bad. Heck, I thought the intro was pretty epic and I was excited till it ended with the short day level and then into werehog stuff.

I think they just need to try and get Sonic working well by himself for this generation where people really are excited for a Sonic game. It just seems like for a few years now with each release of Sonic, it gets sketchier and sketchier for them. I know that where I was excited for the previous Sonic game (That was downright pathetic), it made less interested in Sonic Unleashed which ended up doing bad.

they started of good but then it all went down the drain. And yeah youre right Elton , hispersonality is wearry similar to Poochies.

Though I'am not much into the Sonic-franchise anymore, this documentary made me remember how much I loved the series back on the ol' golden years. Thanks for sharing this, man.

While I respect the early Sonic games and the characters, I was drawn in more by Yugi Naka's follow-up, Nights. Games like that, Klonoa (even Guilty Gear and Grandia 2) are where I wished the industry had perservered on.
Except for Okami, video games now look like Fritz Lang movies (sob)

Aaah... the glory days, when Sonic games didn't suck balls. Thanks for sharing this.

^-^ That some info I didn't know about sonic! Heeehe! Wonderfull find!

Sega just doesn't have the same remarkable ability that Nintendo has to continually ressurect long-running and boring as hell franchises.

Zelda series anyone?

Nice videos. I got really nostalgic of my childhood days playing Sonic the Hedgehog 1/2/3 for my Sega Mega Drive. Last Sonic Game that I really enjoyed was Sonic Adventure 2. I really do think they need to STOP.

I dont personally believe they need to stop but rather just be a little more picky about which they choose for sonics appearance.

I mean look how mario went. He did fantastic during the war years. His peak was mario 64 for many of us. Then there were the few oddballs like mario tennis and mario does accounting (>.>) and mario teaches typeing but then he vanishes for a bit to come out with galaxy which is an overall fantastic continuation on the legacy that was mario 64.

It wouldnt be hard to do a redo for sonic like that.

Sonic 1 was awesome. 2 was AWESOME and 3 was just orgasmic.

Throw in a few oddballs as expected.

Sonic adventure comes, pretty good, had a few unneeded bits.

Sonic adventure 2 comes, sonic comes out of his bad game rut.

And now its all downhill again. they woulda been better off waiting for a while and coming up with a fan-supported GOOD game.

not like... Shadows game.. With the guns.. And ick.

The reason that they don't wait is because they know that they can make money off of the blind fanboys that would buy a game purely for the fact that it's a Sonic game. The more they release, the more they sell.

It's not just that though. It's the fact that the new Sonic games are genuinelly BAD games. It's not a matter of opinion there really. I've only managed to watch my little brother play Unleashed, because if it's so god damned awful to look at, then playing it would completely kill my faith in the Sonic series. D=

Good times...Sonic is really dead for me lately :c

I still like the characters, but when it comes to games and such...I dunno

Thanks for posting, even though I now feel old as hell. I remember all this stuff. I was singing Sonic's praises louder than anyone back in those days. That bed room they showed was pretty much how my room looked. I STILL (true story) have the first Sonic the hedgehog plushie they ever made. In mint condition sitting in my closet. "Sell it?" Nope, I just loved it so much as a kid I kept it long after throwing my thousands of other toys away. I remember playing all those games (Sonic 1-3) but then lost sight of the game, and unabashedly became a Mario lover when I played Mario 64 which revolutionized videogames whether or not anyone wants to admit it, and is still one of my favorite games.

Sadly I must admit that Sonic has become too...fringe...for me now and I don't like him as I did. Ironically enough (looks around THIS VERY WEBSITE) Sonic has become something I never wanted him to be, and have forever put his games on the shelves without even playing them. The last Sonic game I officially played was Sonic Adventures 2. (I have and played Sonic Riders, but literally just one time) His image forever perverted in my mind by a particular fanbase, and unoriginal gaming I don't think I could ever turn back.

However I was shocked to hear Sonic made a cameo appearance on The Simpsons. I want to see that episode.

Everyone has made a cameo appearance in the Simpsons by now. I think I have.

So, is Sonic a time-travelling, hoverboard-racing, excalibur-weilding, human-loving werewolf still, or do they undo the gimmick from each game at the end of it?

Good Question!

Thanks for posting these links. I was a big Sonic fan back in the mid-90s when the Saturday morning show was running (the only good show they made ).

The new Sonic games are not even really about Sonic; you could replace Sonic with any other character and they'd make the same amount of sense. I've played a few of the recent titles for 20 or 30 minutes each and wanted to gouge my own eyes out with the controller.

Hopefully someone can save the franchise, but I'm not optimistic. My understanding is that Sega of Japan is pretty screwed up, and the American subsidiary is definitely in pretty dire straits right now.

It's not like Sonic is completely dead. The Sonic Rush games are really good. They take him back to his roots. No complicated gameplay aspects (not even in Rush Adventure, the most you do is pilot boats from island to island, then it's back to running), just get from the left to the right. Simple, great.

Agreed. Sonic Rush is like a nice trip back in time to when Sonic was, as the kids say, "The Shit."

I typically say "when he wasn't whored out." From what I heard, The Dark Brotherhood was pretty good, but I haven't had the chance to play it.

A very good restrospective, all things considered. And personally, I mostly know Sonic from the Archie comics.

to tell you the truth, i don't really care the the opinons of others when it comes to sonic, he got me into anthros and furries and such on, so the last thin gi need is a party pooper, btu still, i prefer the both versions

i don't see why people fight over what is the best, seems pointless as the FA fourms here, and yes i still collect the comics and games for insrpation, better than anything on the market today

in conclusion, whiel tohers here my have their opinons, it doesn't bother me, just to point it out if i do a drawing of one

eu chei que Ristar iria tirar Sonic da vez de ser o mascote da Sega.
o design de Ristar era bem mais ativo do que o de Sonic, e ele eainda usava as mãos para acertar os inimigos, nadava e voava!!
eu creio que na guerra dos mascotes o meu 1º lugar vai para Crash Bandicoot mesmo!

I wonder what the game would have been like they had kept the original story. :b

I still have passion for Sonic... and in a recent issue of game informer... Yuji Naka... he is doing everything to kill the franchise... not matter what it takes... here is an idea for him... instead of creating one title after another! Just stop making Sonic games. I will still love Sonic and Sega.

I sold my SEGA CD to a friend and gave my Genesis to my nephews. But I still have a handful of carts, CDs, Japanese MegaDrive cartridges, my Nomad, and a couple of emulators (and all of my old games in ROM format). They're still fun and I still play them occasionally (though I think I liked some of the Disney SEGA games better than Sonic).

But, as far as that goes, I liked TurboGrafx/PC Engine games best...